Dave on Hugo is not great at this, as I wanted on on my 404 page; I found a template I liked, which had a serach box embedded. I use this page to build one. It works quite nicely but there is a smallbug, and the site https://dfl.ddns.net doesn;t seem to have any entries in the google index and so I dropped the search box.
Dave on The utility sar is part of the sysstat package. Note the double ‘s’. Most articles/documentation state that the jobs should be run using cron. On Raspbian buster and Ubuntu 22.04 this no longer works, the utilities work, but the historical database is not collected nor stored. These systems require that systemd run the collector.
Dave on It’s conference time for the GMB, and prompted by some members I looked at the state of policy development on low pay and the living wage. The GMB Policy is stated in its policy guide albeit dated 2021. I look at Labour’s “A new deal for working people” and note that the GMB’s minimum wage target is now too low and that Labour has none. As ever some notes and quotes, …
Dave on Today, sar, it seems is not part of the Debian distros, one needs to install the package sysstat.
Dave on Kier Starmer kicked off the new year, with a rousing speech calling the masses to the barricades. Or something like that! Here are my notes. …
Dave on You’d think TCL argument processing has been done and would be easy to find. But not for me. Here are my notes,
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Dave on Here are my notes, although this may not be what I want, threads are only started by making Disqus the comment system for the blog. …
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Dave on Not content with making it impossible to “go and live there” if we don’t like Brexit, the Tories are planning to repeal all the EU derived legislation. The Bill is called the Retained EU Law (Revocation and Reform) Bill 2022-23. It is understood to threaten most already inadequate worker’s rights including holiday pay, working hours limitations, and equal pay. It has been suggested that this I am surprised so little’s been said, most if what I can find is either Government statements, or lawyers, who can often be useful.
Dave on Wizards of the Coast are looking to earn more money from their D&D assets, this has led to some 3rd party creators to worry about their right of access to the rules which had been available to them via WotC Open Gaming Licence OGL 1.0a. The similarity with the software industry’s open source wars and the music industries war on its customers and fans piqued my interest. So I did some reading (and viewing). Enjoy!
Read More Dave on Over the last 18 months I have working with CTOE, their focus has been on using the Conference on the Future of Europe to further democratic reform of the EU. CTOE has been influenced and supports the work of direct democracy campaigners. I made this page at the end of 2022 to expose some of the links and thoughts I have collected.
Dave on I am playing with the Introduction Theme for Hugo and needed to see if I could change the pictures used to decorate it. I didn’t want to learn how to use GIMP anymore than I already do so I installed imagemagick. This article links to three articles that talk about greyscale, lightening and resizing and may talk about more when I discover it. Enjoy.
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Dave on While writing my error warning routines, I was pointed at zenity. Here are my notes …
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Dave on Gordon Brown’s Commission on the constitution of the UK has finished its report. Much of the press focus on the proposal to abolish/reform the House of Lords but it is much more thorough than that. I wonder if in its way its as ambitious as the Chilean constitution that failed earlier this year. I feel a blog article coming, here are my notes and thoughts, I publish them on 15th Dec, I have not yet finished reading the report. So I will almost certainly add to it. …
Dave on Xmas us coming, I was on Steam and found ANNO 1880 which looks beautiful, at least in stills. Currently on offer for a very reasonable price. What do others say? I have a look at some reviews. …
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